08.06.08
Posted in Miscellaneous at 11:23 pm by Roger Overton
I’ll be speaking at a C.S. Lewis conference here in Southern California this Saturday. Those in the area will want to check out the happenings. A flyer is available in PDF. Here are the details:
Standing Against the Tide: C. S. Lewis as Philosopher and Critic in the Postmodern Era
Saturday, August 9, 2008, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Speakers and Discussion
Dr. Donald T. Williams
Rev. Zachary Bright
Dr. James Prothero
Roger Overton
Vanguard University,Heath 109
55 Fair Drive Costa Mesa, California
$20.00 if you’ve reserved or told us you’re coming
$25.00 at the door
Sunday, August 10, 10:00 am-3:30 pm, Worship Service, Needham Chapel, Vanguard U.
Dr. Donald T. Williams
1:30 -2:30 pm
The Journal of Formal Poetry & The Southern California C S Lewis Society presents An Afternoon of Traditional Verse
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04.13.08
Posted in Links at 8:33 pm by Roger Overton
John Mark Reynolds, Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University and co-editor of The New Media Frontier with me, posted today on five C.S. Lewis books that changed his life.
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12.03.07
Posted in Miscellaneous, Links at 11:02 pm by Roger Overton
Check out this post "On Reading C.S. Lewis" by JollyBlogger David Wayne.
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11.24.07
Posted in Miscellaneous at 5:57 pm by Roger Overton
Here are the plenary session audio files from the C.S. Lewis conference last month.
C.S. Lewis: The Man & His Work, October 26-27, 2007 at SEBTS. (courtesy SEBTS)
Walter Hooper: "Walter Hooper’s Work as Editor of C.S. Lewis Works"
Bruce Edwards: "C.S. Lewis: America’s Bonny Fighter"
Walter Hooper: "C.S. Lewis: Reflections about the Man"
James Como: "Culture and Public Philosophy: The Other C.S. Lewis"
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10.30.07
Posted in Miscellaneous, Theology at 8:05 pm by Roger Overton
Last weekend I had the privilege of presenting my first academic paper at a conference on C.S. Lewis in Wake Forest, NC. The paper is titled- "The Virtuous Case fore Christ: How C.S. Lewis’s Theological Virtues Should Aid Christians Living in a Postmodern Culture." It’s available on request if you send me an email at rogeroverton@hotmail.com. I do have audio, and I hope to post it here later this week. However, due to the time limit I only read about two-thirds of the paper, so if you’re interested in the whole thing you’ll want a text copy.
The conference was one of the best I’ve been to. It was a great opportunity to meet several notable Lewis scholars. Here are a few pictures….
Walter Hooper signing my copy of Past Watchful Dragons. This is one of the few books he’s written on Lewis’s works (as opposed to editing) and was published in 1979. When I handed it to him to sign he said, "Well I didn’t expect to see this!"
Me with Bruce Edwards and James Como. Bruce has been in the Lewis field for awhile and recently edited a 4 volume anthology of essays on C.S. Lewis. I doubt I would have been presenting a paper at the conference without him. James Como co-founded the New York C.S. Lewis Society back in 1969. Hooper credited him as one of the reasons for interest in Lewis growing in America.
Evidence that people actually showed up to hear my paper. The room was just about full- my guess around 60 people.
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06.20.07
Posted in Miscellaneous at 9:12 pm by Roger Overton
October 26-27, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary will be hosting an incredible conference on C.S. Lewis. The plenary speakers are Walter Hooper, Bruce Edwards, and James Como. That should be enough to get you to go. But there are also a slew of great papers being read by notables Will Vaus, Diana Glyer, and many others. And, by what appears to be some fantastical error that will undoubtedly come back to haunt the organizers, I’ll be presenting a paper entitled "The Virtuous Case for Christ: How Lewis’s Theological Virtues Should Aid Christians Living in a Postmodern Culture." I’m already nervous, this should be interesting…
Speaking of Diana Glyer, I had the privilege of meeting her this past weekend at a local CSL conference. I recommend you pick up her new book, The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, and her website: The Place of the Lion.
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06.09.07
Posted in Miscellaneous at 10:02 pm by Roger Overton
For those of you looking to keep up with the latest work on C.S. Lewis, I’ve finally updated my Chronological List of Works Related to Lewis to reflect recent and future releases as well as a few revised titles.
I’ve also updated the links on the side, adding Will Vaus and Brian Sibley to the site list.
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02.17.07
Posted in Book Reviews at 8:46 pm by Roger Overton
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In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie found an interesting book on her friend’s bookshelf titled Is Man a Myth? The subject matter makes sense from a world in which no human had been for quite some time. But even in our world questions about what it means to be human are at best unresolved by our culture. In Mere Humanity, Donald T. Williams explores humanity in the work of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Mere Humanity consists of an introduction, six chapters, concluding thoughts, and two appendices. In between each of these are one-page poetic “interludes” that reflect on various aspects of humanity. Over the six chapters, Dr. Williams analyzes The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton, “On Faerie Stories” and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Abolition of Man, The Space Trilogy, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
Dr. Williams did an excellent job of analyzing these popular works in light of contemporary philosophies and, most importantly, biblical revelation. He showed how Chesterton, Tolkien, and Lewis each dealt with contrary ideologies in their own ways in order to point their readers to the biblical understanding of what it means to be human. My favorite chapter was “The Abolition of Talking Beasts,” as it shows what peril our culture is in by losing its human identity.
It is often said that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien were three Christian giants who have given people a better perspective of the world. In Mere Humanity, Dr. Williams brings their collective perspectives together to form an insightful and urgent critique of the contemporary view of humanity.
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